> >> Here I don't agree anymore. If I want to retrieve a HTTP auth-protected > >> resource > >> with XHR from a CORS-enabled server, the natural thing to do seems to try > >> to pass > >> in the user name and password in the XHR open() call. If the script author > >> supplied > >> user/pass and the server says 401 on a request without Authorization: > >> surely the > >> natural next step is to re-try with Authorization:? > > > > If the caller to the XHR.open() call provided a username and password, > > then shouldn't the implementation send that information in the *first* > > request rather than waiting for a 401? >
> I'd like to do that, but Anne thinks it violates the HTTP protocol Replying to self, this would break the authentication method negotiation that HTTP allows (i.e. selection of basic, digest, and more proprietary stuff like NTLM). Hence we should wait for a 401 challenge. (Could we however fix this in CORS so that the WWW-Authenticate header could be included in a preflight response where applicable?) -- Hallvord R. M. Steen Core tester, Opera Software
